In Episode 8 of The Rights Track, Todd talks to Professor Rhoda
Howard-Hassmann, International Chair of Human Rights at Wilfred
Laurier University in Canada about state food crime, what it is,
where it’s happening, why she believes it should be considered an
international human rights crime and the challenges...

In 1961, President John F. Kennedy established
The Presidential Commission on the Status of Women, a formal
body that collected evidence and made recommendations on many of
the challenges facing women in the modern American economy, polity,
and society. No such body has ever been established for the status
of African...

About the Podcast

The Rights Track podcast gets the hard facts about the human rights challenges facing the world today and aims to get our thinking about human rights on the right track. The podcast is hosted by Professor Todd Landman, a human rights scholar and champion for the advancement of human rights understanding. In Series 1, funded by the Nuffield Foundation, Todd interviews leading analysts at the forefront of the latest critical thinking on human rights. Each episode is an insightful, compelling and rigorous interview with academics engaged in systematic human rights research. In Series 2, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, The Rights Track turns its attention to human rights advocates and practitioners involved in the struggle for human rights to learn more about their work and the ways in which academic research is helping them. Series 3 sees our podcast joining the fight to end modern day slavery by 2030. In partnership with the University of Nottingham's Right's Lab research project, we talk with researchers who are providing hard evidence about the scale of the problem and by recommending strategies that can help consign slavery to the history books. Although our interviews focus on often complex research, they have been developed with a much wider audience in mind and we want them to be accessible to anyone with an interest in human rights.